Special Meet up day!

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Hello

Today in class we had group meetings! 

We were instructed to visit our teacher's website (tstok.net)  and check out each others blogs and overall work.

Overall there was a lot of info shared, but not much feedback.

CCR ideas were discussed, but no one had a clear mind on anything (we're all burnt out lol)
CCR ideas were pretty similar, everyone wanted to do something creative, but felt limited to doing a powerpoint presentation or a directors note type of thing due to lack of time.

Two of the group members were almost done with their project entirely, those being Nick and Sarah, Nick's got everything done besides I believe some final editing and placement of credits, Sarah is seeking a fitting title and where to put credits.

Everyone's blogs are thoroughly created and filled, and everyone seems to be atleast somewhat on track.

really nice

Group image!

john ultrakill approved

Extra Filler Post!

 Hello! 

Just here to say I messed up my post schedule, I wasnt supposed to give CCR production ideas till the end of this week, so this week will be dedicated to the questions

Also, Im still behind from finishing my actual production, but Im going back to finish refilming the last stuff,  oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh! I finally got the editing to work, the problem was a MISCLICK. I WENT THROUGH ALL THAT STRESS OVER A MISCLICK. anyways I have some stuff edited so far.

Week 6 Day 4

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Guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its CCR time!

Except this isnt a fun thing for me because I suck at creativity and suck even more at executing that creativity.

alrighty guys so I havent actually been reviewing what I should do for the questions because the questions themselves dont look too bad to do, Ive been mostly focusing on ideas.

Idea 1:

Talk show type thing, I can have movement of the camera included as well as that one editing style that just cycles back from one person to another, I do have a window at my house that has 2 chairs and a table in the middle that i could use (Obviously id cover up the window with a curtain), Id just need to maybe ad lights or another notable decoration... 

I would love to be more creative with this though...

Idea 2:

This ones hella cheesy but I dont have much more ideas,
Kidnapping interrogation, my inspiration was actually that one scene in the first iron man movie where stark is kinda sitting there with the antagonists behind him in a low quality recording. I could replicate a low quality video with this one digital handheld camera I have from like 9 years ago (sorry no photo im doing this post remotely [at my friends house])

Basically for this one I just gotta get a dark room, modify it a bit in terms of furnishing and decor, put some light focused on me (like a spotlight) + some extra lighting and just talk into the camera, not the best since theres movement (there might be some movement at the start but thats really it) or anything, but atleast theres mise-en-scene elements to be incorporated

This ones probably more of like a last resort since it doesnt dive into much.

Idea 3:

I could try doing like a skit or something similar, a video thats basically built off a joke that still manages to clearly answer the questions would be cool. Though this idea is really general.

There are multiple ways to do this one, and I could use dumb tiktok skits as a basis for joke ideas, but as of right now, Im not entirely sure.

Anyways, obviously I can go a different route than these ideas, but for now this is all I got.

NOT john ultrakill approved

Week 6 Day 3

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Hello!

NOT john ultrakill approved

Being so fr with yall folks at cambridge

I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS

I SAW SOMETHING ABOUT A LISCENSE UPGRADE BUT EVEN FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS FROM THERE MY ACCOUNT DOES NOT HAVE PREMIER PRO, (WHICH ITS SUPPOSED TO HAVE) 

I HAVE NEVER FELT SUCH URGENCY IN SOMETHING, NEXT WEEK HAS TO BE CCR STUFF ONLY IM PRETTY SURE, MEANING IM REALLY BEHIND FROM ALL THIS.

i will be asking my teacher :( 

Yeah

Week 6 day 2

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Today is editing time!

hopefully

jk

working through these clips is annoying as hell i cant lie...

dude i cant even see a preview image (normally i can)

Probably gonna sort these out and name them in a minute.

Guess whos absolute garbage at editing!

me.

So anyways, Im gonna be using the adobe premier pro even tho I hate using it just because its fancy :3 (im broke and have nothing else besides capcut which is NOT  allowed.)

is what I would say if uh....

what the hell do i do

Since i couldnt edit, I decided to work on some foley sounds 

Ok what the hell my phone doesnt want to upload images no more

I kinda have to just describe what I did...

One of the sounds i mightve overlooked in the storyboarding and planning was fabric moving, so I did just that... 

like 4 times,

for each time I did it, i used a trusty book, rubbed it against the floor, and recorded it. It worked i guess, 2 of the recordings kind of suck though.

Another sound I did was a door opening sound, which was tricky... I remember in an old project I had to do something similar, but this time I did not have much to my disposal, but i ended up using a specific sound that occurs when you let go of a controllers joystick when its on the edge (might be specific to the dualshock 4 i was using) and then a plastic stand with rubber bottoms (hyperspecific)

it was kind of bad, i might re do it honeslty.

Sorry for the short post, but really theres a lot of difficulties right now...

 john ultrakill approved

Yeah

Week 6 Day 1 !

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Production!

Oh my god.

OK SO GUESS WHAT

sorry for an off set picture, I kind of
forgot to do it on set, I do have
more pictures on the processes
on set tho, dont worry.

I WANTED TO SEE IF I COULD GET THE QUALITY OF THE VIDEO COULD BE BETTER WITH A GOOD CAMERA MY DAD HAD BOUGHT LIKE 5 YEARS BACK

PLUS IT WOULDVE GIVEN ME MY PHONES FLASHLIGHT AS AN EXTRA SOURCE OF LIGHT TO WORK WITH

unfortunately, since my friend was the one recording, a lot of the stuff came out choppy. LUCKILY, NOT  ALL OF IT.

For now I just have to work around this issue and redo some shots in a few days.

Heres an example of what I'm talking about (below)

It looks kind of fine here since its small, but on a bigger scale you can see that its slightly unfocused and pretty grainy...

Its not too big of a deal though, Ill ask my teacher if it REALLY matters.

Anyways! Next up I wanna tell you guys about my lighting set up.

This time around, I was able to use two more Key items for lighting, one being my phone (has a really adjustable flashlight) and some wierd ring light (colors!)

This was the lighting set up for about 2 of the shots, but it has most of the tools we used!

In the image above you can see 3 things (kind of) on the left is a REALLY REALLY BRIGHT lamp thats being covered with an old black pacman shirt (my saviour), on the right-ish you can see a tripod ringlight, in this shot i used a specific blue ish color for that cold cold cold cold yeah, but despite changing brightness and stuff, it was a bit too strong, so I covered it behind white light from my phones flashlight. (the tripod had a thing for ur phone)

this is one of the shots i gotta redo due to blurryness, but its a great example of how big of a lifesaver this stupid ringlight was.

The light used here was orangish (somewhat white) from the ringlight, and on the leftish back was my phones flashlight on a low output. while less visible, behind the camera there was the covered lamp, providing little light.

I really liked working on this Im just hella dissapointed in the blurry camerawork.

Maybe my friends not good with cameras.

This dog is john ultrakill approved

take a picture of my dog :3

Yeah

Week 5 day 4!

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Hello once more people at Cambridge + teacher!

This time around Im gonna discuss some shots I took, and my current plans

So this is the first shot of the two I wish to discuss, it was one of the easier ones to do. 

This shot was on my storyboard btw!

So about the shot, despite it being an easier shot to do, the previous challenges mentioned in my previous blogposts kind of require I try to take it again when I have the proper tools to make it look 

actually good.

On the other hand, this shot did look similar to what I was picturing whilst brainstorming which is nice because it means I dont have to scramble to find whats wrong.

yeah

This was another one of the shots I had placed on my storyboard, It was similar to my vision like the last shot, but here I have some issues that are gonna make me retake it

#1 Too dark
As explained earlier AND in a previous blogpost, I dont have proper lighting tools, and I didnt have that much to use  besides a few lamps and stuff.

despite this I do like the shot, I just need to make it better with some better lighting

#2. the framing

my friend was helping me with this shot, and since hes dumb and stupid he left the frame uncentered and shaky which sucks. Again, im gonna retake it, I can probably afford a phone stabilizer or something.

#3 Myself

Holy hell I look ugly, I think this might just be something everyone experiences, but I cannot stand how I look in the shot, unfortunately, my friend refuses to act or even show up in blogs so im on my own which sucks.

There were more shots, but not many of them are really special...

oh and i gotta retake some of them.... 

i think i said that before....

yeah

Play ultrakill

Week 5 day 3 post

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Hello guys!

Welcome back, again.

uh

yeah

ok so this time I want to let yall know about how I worked with lighting during the production, cuz it was horrible and it was partially my fault that it was horrible.

Literally the three crutches of mine

Lamp 1

Really heavy for some reason

Also pretty bright

Does work well for some specific shots

COVER THE LIGHT IN TRANSPARENT - ISH MATERIAL = DIMMING !!!!

man I wish I had professional lighting equipment like we did when we were working on that music video and branding project

Im broke

Lamp 2

Ok so get this

Its broken

Its way too bright

I dont even think I can use it

4/10

I hate this

Phone

Ok so this is by far my goat !

Adjustable brightness

even if its too bright turn the phone around and use the screen as a light (+ that can be colored)

Easy to move

man im broke

Anyways, this was entirely my fault, I originally thought my friend had some more light sources (specific ones were infact in my mind) but apparently he got rid of some of them, which is kinda weird but... roadblocks cannot stop me I will be bringing better light sources next time (which is probably gonna be like wednesday or something) 

the phone was pretty good though, it lit up a half decent shot, but I most likely need to retake half of the shots I took when I bring better(?) lighting equipment

yeah